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(CBS/AP) BERLIN – A Syrian opposition leader called Tuesday for a massive aid program to help rebuild his country after President Bashar Assad’s regime falls, warning that a lack of economic development could open the door to extremism. A top German official representing donor nations, meanwhile, said Syria’s opposition factions must overcome their current divisions. More in After the Arab Spring Abdelbaset Sieda, the head of the Syrian National Council, told a meeting of Syrian opposition representatives and diplomats that Syria would need a program similar to the Marshall Plan, the post-World War II European reconstruction effort, if the Assad regime collapses. U.N.: 100,000 refugees flee Syria civil war in August alone He said Assad’s regime has devastated public finances and institutions to such an extent that Syria won’t be able to rely immediately – or solely – on oil revenues and taxes in any rebuilding effort. “In the aftermath of the destruction … we are convinced Syria needs a Marshall-style plan to ensure it stands again on solid financial and economic ground,” Sieda said in Berlin. “Without real comprehensive development, we will open up the opportunity for the growth of all kinds of extremism.” The gathering on economic rebuilding, which Germany chairs jointly with the United Arab Emirates, 청주출장안마 aimed to address how to prevent basic services and infrastructure from collapsing and how to revive the economy in...

Jay-Z might be known for his tough guy image, 함평출장만남 but the rapper says he cried tears of joy when his mother, Gloria Carter, came out to him as lesbian. In an episode of Netflix’s “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman,” Jay-Z says of the moment, “I really cried. That’s a real story. I cried because I was so happy for her that she was free.” The “4:44” artist talked about the track “Smile,” in which he raps, “Mama had four kids, but she’s a lesbian, had to pretend so long that she’s a thespian. Had to hide in the closet, so she medicate. Society shame and the pain was too much to take. Cried tears of joy when you fell in love. Don’t matter to me if it’s a him or her. I just want to see you smile through all the hate.” His mother also performs, saying, “Living in the shadow. Can you imagine what kind of life it is to live? In the shadows people see you as happy and free, because that’s what you want them to see. Living two lives, happy, but not free.” Jay-Z said his mother first opened up to him about it while he was working on his album eight months ago. “I made the song the next day,” he said. “I knew. But this was the first...

The Department of Justice announced charges Thursday against a North Korean government-sponsored hacker over the 2014 Sony Pictures hack. In a criminal complaint filed earlier this year but only made public Thursday, the DOJ alleges Park Jin Hyok was a member of a hacking group known as the “Lazarus Group” and sponsored by the North Korean government, 카지노사이트 the DOJ said in a news release. The complaint alleges Park, working for a North Korean government front company best known as Korea Expo Joint Venture, or KEJV, worked to support the North Korean government’s malicious cyber activities.  Specifically, Park has been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse, and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The Treasury Department announced sanctions on North Korea for “multiple” cyber attacks in the same day, specifically mentioning Park in its announcement of the sanctions.  More in Cybersecurity “The complaint charges members of this North Korean-based conspiracy with being responsible for cyberattacks that caused unprecedented economic damage and disruption to businesses in the United States and around the globe,” First Assistant United States Attorney Tracy Wilkison said in a statement. “…These charges send a message that we will track down malicious actors no matter how or where they hide. We will continue to pursue justice for those responsible for the huge monetary losses and attempting to compromise the...

(AP) UNITED NATIONS – Syria’s civil war is worsening and there is no prospect of a quick end to the violence, international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said Monday in a gloomy assessment to the U.N. Security Council. The new envoy leavened his message, however, saying he was crafting a new plan that he hoped could break the impasse, but refused to give details or say when it would be ready. Despite President Bashar Assad’s refusal to end his family’s 40-year grip on power, some tentative hope of a solution remained, Brahimi said in his first briefing to the council since he took over from Kofi Annan on Sept. 1 as the U.N.-Arab League special representative for Syria “I think there is no disagreement anywhere that the situation in Syria is extremely bad and getting worse, that it is a threat to the region and a threat to peace and security in the world,” Brahimi told reporters after the closed-door talks. Activists claim nearly 30,000 people have died in the uprising which began in March 2011, including in attacks Monday by Syrian warplanes in the northern city of Aleppo. Brahimi had just returned from Syria and refugee camps in Jordan and Turkey. His gloomy report of a looming food crisis, battle-damaged schools and shuttered factories, contradicted his insistence that he saw grounds for optimism, including “some signs” that the divided Syrian...